I've searched the forums for a similar thread without success. My apologies for starting my forum career here with a question.

Has someone perchance a link to the upcoming Hobbit toy soldiers from the company Game Workshop? I have found a list of the toy boxes on scribd some days ago but cannot find it anymore. Do you know where I can find it now?

My son is a big Legolas fan and I like to know if his set gets released before Christmas.

As an avid collector of these miniatures, all I can say is that we were told some while ago (about a year back) that Games Workshop had a license to make models featured in The Hobbit films. Aside from that though, we know next to nothing at this point.

Hope this helps. "Radagast is, of course, a worthy wizard, a master of shapes and changes of hue, and he has much lore of herbs and beasts, and birds are especially his friends."-Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings.

Here is the Games Workshop homepage: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/home.jsp"Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house." - Aragorn

and same here, as a GW LOTR collector, I'm real keen on seeing what they produce but it's unlikely we'll see anything prior to the film's release in order to keep things under wraps from movie spoilers (as the models are replicated from the movie characters' appearances).

My best guess at this stage would be a release next year, followed by every subsequent year until all films are released. "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson."

Reags, Are you goign to get the Hobbit armies when they come out? I imagine the 5 Armies stuff will be amazing, GW does such good work.

If so, think we'll get a chance to see some more pics from you of the hobbit armies painted up pro-style?

Can't wait to see what Games Workshop comes up with... The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.

That document is potentially full of spoilers! I'm not familiar with this series and if they might be creating sets arbitrarily, or only reproducing movie scenarios. Maybe you guys could explain the sorts of releases they did for LOTR.

But if it is genuine Hobbit movie stuff then...daaang! This is a treasure trove of information.

As has been said, plenty of spoilers... "Radagast is, of course, a worthy wizard, a master of shapes and changes of hue, and he has much lore of herbs and beasts, and birds are especially his friends."-Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings.

...with what we've speculated on before, such as Grinnah being a werewolf. A while back I was able to make out that name as the label for the cgi creature from the early vlogs which we see right about the same time as the unfinished animatronic creature. It looked like a warg on two legs.

But some may be more fanciful, or just inaccurate. Good material to support other evidence though.

I doubt this will all be in the film, but ones that immediately spring to mind as being odd/different: Dol Guldur: The Willowhags Beornings: Whisperbark / Gnarlfir Dol Guldur: Bloodwraiths Dol Guldur: Gwethil Wargs: The Werebeast White Council: Galadriel (Water Steed) Gandalf (Dual Sword) Dwarves: Dís, Mother of Kili and Fili "Radagast is, of course, a worthy wizard, a master of shapes and changes of hue, and he has much lore of herbs and beasts, and birds are especially his friends."-Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings.

All the non-movie minis were month or years after the movies released.

GW has both the Hobbit/LotR and the Silmarillion licence, but so far they stayed near the LotR movie and used the movie’s aesthetics. The first three years of the game GW only released miniatures that were in the movies. The releases were a mix of troop releases and narrative boxes. For example, there was a weathertop box, that contained all the miniatures that took part in that scene, even though every character had had already a model. The game was infamous for releasing every character in a dozen different poses. Later, about a year after the last movie, GW started to expand the range with models that were in the books but not in the movies like the rangers and variag men. Much later they started to release their own sets based on Tolkien’s writing like Angmar, the War between Dwarves and Orcs and confrontation between Dol Guldur and the White Council. Actually there are already models for a lot of stuff that features in the film like the spiders, the Necromancer, Thranduil or Dain.

The models in the list are worth more or less 2 years of releases if GW shells them out at the same pace. By the standard set by LotR, in this timeframe there should be only miniatures for things that are in The Hobbit trilogy.

This months White Dwarf (Games-Workshop's monthly magazine) has a two page advertisement for their Hobbit range, however it's just a photo of the films main characters and no models are shown. The article suggests that we may start to see some things in the coming months and their Lord of the Rings models were released in November, a month before each film release however I think this was mostly non spoilery stuff like troop box sets and models of the main characters. I remember reading somewhere that Games-Workshop's hobbit range may come in December as they have a major release for one of their other ranges in November. I think I might have seen this on the Warseer message boards.

Some of the kits listed are somewhat mind-boggling. Especially Bofur on Cold-Drake. I wonder if thats a typo or he's riding to the Battle of the Five Armies in style. Do yous think he items listed might perhaps be worthy of a thread in the Hobbit board?